Excrement Excrement LP
Granted, an EXCREMENT shirt would be difficult to wear in most social gatherings, and if you wear one at your niece’s graduation, you might get some pretty nasty looks from your uncle. The same goes for a job interview. although it might depend on the job you’re applying for. It does send a strong message. EXCREMENT was a very obscure band from Sapporo City, active in the ’00s, and if you heard of them before the release of this discography LP, then you deserve the much-coveted 2025 Punk Nerd Award. The label did a great job describing the noise, but let’s reformulate. The band played ’80s-style Japanese hardcore with a “distort Japan” major, blending the more traditional local sound of early LSD with the Bristol-loving style of CONFUSE, GAI, and some modern heirs like DUST NOISE or GLOOM. It’s got that primitive, bellicose vibe, angry vocals, and the emphatic distorted guitar, implying that the crust pants legion would be into this (and the name will definitely not scare them), but it keeps the stomping hardcore vibe. The LP includes several recording sessions, but the mastering does a great job at equalizing everything and you don’t get that patchwork feel. I do enjoy it a lot, because EXCREMENT hypnotises the listener through relentless noise and proper aggression (it is admittedly a pretty intense listening experience). Certainly not for everyone, but whether you like being deafened by distortion or not, the archaeological work of General Speech must be commended.